Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, took the stand Tuesday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
During her testimony, she recounted how she got into exotic dancing and detailed her encounter with Trump in July 2006.
The adult film actress also appeared to confirm a detail about Trump’s relationship with his wife, Melania.
When prompted, Daniels testified that Trump’s bodyguard Keith Schiller had asked if she would have dinner with Trump. Initially, she declined, but her publicist insisted, so Daniels agreed.
She took an elevator to the penthouse floor, where she saw Schiller and a slightly open door to Trump’s room. Upon entering the suite, she found Trump wearing satin pajamas.
Daniels told him to change, which he did, and the two began a conversation, with Trump asking “very thought-out business questions” about Daniels’ work.
“He asked about the business aspects of it. Are there any unions? Do you get residuals? How are people paid? Do you get health insurance? What about testing? Are you worried about STDs?” she recalled on the stand.
While Trump prodded Daniels about her personal life, the two only had a “very brief” conversation about Trump and his wife Melania who had only recently given birth to their son Barron.
She recalled asking Trump about Melania and commenting on her beauty. Daniels also remembered Trump saying, “We don’t sleep in the same room.”
In a 2018 Washington Post feature, a presidential insider revealed the then-president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump did not share a bedroom.
First lady scholar Annette Dunlap told People the last time couples occupied separate bedrooms in the White House was Patricia and Richard Nixon, however prior to the 1970s, it wasn’t all that uncommon.
“It was kind of a European thing,” Dunlap said at the time. “The idea of sleeping in the same bed together in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century was a symbol of poverty, because you couldn’t afford your own bed or your own bedroom.”
